[Day 205] It's the end of the world, get drunk

[bastionpc]

Who: Georges and anyone about
Open: Open
When: 205 sometime in the afternoon
Where: Around the Monument
What: The Cael way of celebrating everyone not dying involves booze, so drink up! (Fun fact: the Cael way of mourning may also involve booze.)
Format: Any
Warnings: Drunken shenanigans, likely. Also feel free to treat this like a mingle thread and not just talking to Georges! (Although he'll try to chat with everyone if he can)


So, just to double check: A cure has been found? Everyone's recovered? No one's dead? It's safe to leave the house now? Excellent.

With this fact well known, one can find Georges starting off his morning not hanging about the bar (as is his custom as the only bartender in the Bastion) but in fact setting up something in front of the Monument. Tables, chairs, some blankets to sit on when those inevitably run out... There's also something of a makeshift bar area, a variety of liquor in fascinating bottles set up along with some glasses.

Everything is all finished up around the afternoon, and Georges goes behind his little makeshift table-bar to cup his hands around his mouth so he can yell-

"DRINKS ON THE HOUSE!"

...What do you mean he technically never makes anyone pay for booze at the end of the world? Just come up and have a drink, Georges will be happy to recommend something. Or maybe bother someone else having a drink?

Comments

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[Rob shakes his head slightly, and the curved barbell in his septum bounces as he does.]

Got here yesterday.

[coolerthansora]

Oh.

No wonder you're drinking.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[Another slight headshake.]

I'm drinking because otherwise I'd just be sitting here doing nothing.

[coolerthansora]

...

I don't get it.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

I don't have any books or anything else to do while I'm here, and I don't wanna just sit here and stare at nothing, so I got a drink. Besides, it's been a couple months since the last time I've had alcohol, and it's free right now, so... [He shrugs and takes another sip.]

[coolerthansora]

Somebody's gotta have books to borrow. For later anyway.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

Something to look into.

[But since it requires talking to people, it might be a while before he does.]

[coolerthansora]

Yeah.

-oh, um, I'm Roxas. By the way.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

I'm Rob.

[...And he's not sure what to say now. If Roxas feels like he's leading the conversation... that's because he is. He might have noticed that Rob isn't very good at this.]

[coolerthansora]

[Not really. Roxas is not exactly the epitome of a smooth conversationalist either, but the booze loosens him up a little.]

Nice to meet you, I guess.

Well, I mean. It's not really the best place. But at least you got here after all the plague stuff.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[Rob nods, piercing bouncing again.]

I heard about that. Doesn't sound like it was very fun.

[His voice increases in volume midway through speaking, and although it's still low it isn't as hard to hear anymore.]

[coolerthansora]

[By contrast, Roxas's voice quiets a bit as he stares into his drink.]

No. It was- scary.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[Rob says nothing for a bit. He hasn't thought about plagues much, but thinking about what it would be like to live through one, especially a potentially deadly one where you wouldn't know if you or the people you cared about would survive? Yeah, that sounds like it would be pretty scary.]

At least you got through it in one piece.

[coolerthansora]

Yeah. I guess so.

[He doesn't seem terribly reassured by this, and it takes him a moment to speak again.]

And then, once I'm all better, I can look for my friends.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

...What happened to them?

[coolerthansora]

They're missing. Out on the Skyway.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[Rob's silent for a bit, not sure what to say.]

I hope you find 'em.

[coolerthansora]

Yeah. We've got stuff we're supposed to do together.

...sorry. You probably don't really care.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[Well. The truth of the matter is that while Rob cares about Roxas's missing friends from a moral "Rob's not a terrible person and doesn't like to see innocent people suffer" standpoint, he's known Roxas all of five minutes and has no personal connection to the situation and thus doesn't care as much as he could. He's been told (more than once) that expressing that view isn't something he should do, so he's left needing to find something to say to Roxas. The momentary pause before he answers probably negates much of the perceived sincerity of what follows.]

Of course I do.

[coolerthansora]

It's okay not to. I get it. You don't know me or my friends, and- you're not Sora either.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

[He'll just be thinking about what a terrible person he is for not caring as much as he should.]

I still don't like seeing people sad.

[coolerthansora]

[Rob, you're talking to a Nobody. Nobodies are the poster children for not caring as much as they should. Except a lot of them also care more than they're expected to. Being a Nobody is weird.]

See? Good people don't. You're okay.